HAIR LOVELINESS FOR THE SPRING

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 5

HAIR LOVELINESS FOR THE SPRING

Special Treatment for Your Locks is Needed Just Now

This is the time of the year when most of us begin to realise the need of a little special hair culture, for during the winter months our locks’have not been given such frequent baths of health-giving sun and air, and are consequently looking somewhat lifeless in colour. Also, as spr.ng draws near, the brighter lights make any hair shortcoming doubly evident, and—reason number three—feminine thoughts just now fly to the question of spring hats and per

manent waves.

(By

Lorelei.)

“Perms” have become more and more a necessity for most girls, but before having one it is absolutely essential to give the hair a series of reconditioning treatments to ensure a perfectly healthy scalp, free from dandruff.

The hair itself, too, must possess the greatest degree of elasticity and vigour if your wave is to be really successful, and the ends curly and glossy.

These treatments should consist of special shampoos, massage, and brushing, and with a little time to spend, and a very little trouble, any girl can do this reconditioning herself. The whole treatment should extend over a period of five or six weeks. Tfiat is, one weekly shampoo for that time, and five or seven minutes of brushing and massage every day. The shampoo mixture you can also make for yourself in the following way:—

Put two ounces of tincture of green soap into a pint. of cold water, and heat it until it is almost at boiling point. Remove it *rom the fire, and when it is lukewarm stir into it the beaten yolk of one egg, two ounces, of bay rum. and one tablespoonful of eau de cologne. This preparation will, of course, be enough for several washings. Before shampooing the hair each week It should be given a thorough oiling, and for this equal parts of castor oil and rectified spirits will be found most nourishing and cleansing to the scalp. Put it on plentifully, rubbing it well into the roots, and allow it to remain on for an hour or so while the head is wrapped in a towel. The shampoo should be done preferably under running hot water. Work up a lather with the green soap preparation and then wash it well our. Once again soap the hair with the shampoo mixture, and when it is thoroughly lathered part it here and there and work the lather in with a small brush.

This will have a wonderful effect in improving the circulation and cheeking -any tendency to dandruff.

Tlie final rinsing should be very thorough. Every trace of soap must be washed out of the hair, and for this it is best to use water just hotter than blood heat.

During this five weeks’ hair beauty campaign do not skimp the massage, for this is just as important as the weekly shampoo. It must never be forgotten that bright and beautiful hair depends on not only a scrupulously clean scalp, but on a free and healthy blood flow to the hair roots. Almost every hair trouble can be dealt with by proper friction and massage, with their stimulating effect on blood vessels and hair follicles. But the massage must properly lift the scalp, or its effects will be only superficial. This is the way to do it: Put both hands on the head near the nape of the neck, press hard and work the tissues and muscles upward and round, without lifting the fingers from the one place. Remember that the idea is to rotate and loosen the scalp. Do this all over the head at intervals, lifting the scalp as much as possible with a firm movement of the fingers. Be particularly careful with the part above the ears and on the temples. Brisk massage there is wonderful, not only for hair health, but for the muscles down the sides of the face. It helps to keep the face contour young and the forehead smooth.

After the masage, brush the hair for a few minutes with a clean, firm bristled brush. It is best to wash your brush every day during your five weeks’ treatment.

If youj hair has been very neglected and shows signs of falling out, a tonic lotion should be used with the massage every other night. Get your chemist to make you up one consisting of pure bay rum, tincture of cantharides, with just a little oil of rosemary. 11